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THOMPSON'S STORY.
"An affair of some mystery," remarked Mr.Gryce, as we halted at the corner to take a final look at the house and its environs.

"Why a girl should choose such a method of descent as that,"-- and he pointed to the ladder down which we believed her to have come--"to leave a house of which she had been an inmate for a year, baffles me, I can tell you.

If it were not for those marks of blood which betray her track, I would be disinclined to believe any such hare-brained adventure was ever perpetrated by a woman.

As it is, what would'nt I give for her photograph.